Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-19
FARMERS ALLIANCE,
Officers Elec,ed for the Ensuing Year.
Delegates Chosen TO the National
AlIiapce-Off for Atlanta.
Fort Worth, Dallas and Waco Present THAR
Claims Cor the Locat on OF the Farmers
Alliance Exchange OF Texas
Sneclal 10 the Gazette.

| Special TO the Gazette.
WACO, Ten. Aug. 12.-In the session
OF the Farmers Alliance to-day, the new
constitution Of the order, which he'd been
read and discussed in sections, was
finally adopted. 1t c9ntsins number Of
features not found il the old constitu-
| Ton.
The following resolution was also
adopted:
"Resslved, tina. we, the representatives
OF the Farmers State Aliianc& of Texas,
demand of the next Legisl ature the enact
ment of such laws IS will give relief to
the great masses Of the peopla of our
state from land monopolIes aud svndi-
Gates who are continually extending their
power ard influence oy the acquisition
of much of our most valuable land, thus
depriying our poorer citizens OF their
homes; and further, that the public lands
of our state be held only for the actual
settler and the benefit OF our public
schools"
President Evan Jones of Dublin, Erath
county, was reelected to that position.
Mr. D. L. Macready of Pottsboro was
elected secretary. The session will ad-
journ tomorrow morning.
|
meeting of the Farmers Alliance OF
Texas closed It's work tonight and ad-
iourned. The following i5 complete
list Of officers elected President, Evan
Jones of Erath county; vice president,
Thomas NJ. Smith OF Navarro county;
secretary, II. G. Moore Of Tsrrant
county; treasurer, j. H. Sanders of
Johnson county; chaplain, j. c.. Nc
Creary Ct Harrison county" state lee
turer, B. T. Rogers Of Anderson county;
assistant lecturer, j l. Moody Of Lime
stone county; sergeant-at-eTms, l.. d.
Wright; door keeper. John NJ. MarhoCh;
assistant door keeper, +. G. Galloway.
The executive committee IS COMPOSED of
B. j. Kendrick, McLernan county; Ben
Terrell Of Guadalupe, and Joseph SmUl-
ser OF Cooke.
The committee appointed to recon-
mend delegates TO attend the National
Alliance, which meets at Shreveport, La,
the second "Wednesday in October next,
submitted the following report, which
was sdopted:
To the State Farmers Alliance,
We, your committee appointed to
recommend delegates from the several
Congressional districts to the National
Farmers Alliance, would recommend the
following brethren:
FIRST district-C. +. Cade, r. A. Stew
art, J. J. Fairchild and A. NJ. Turnbuu.
Second district-H. c. Maund of Hemp
hill, G. a. beaverton Of Middleton and
{ Robert Wallace of Palestine.
Third district-R. NJ. Key of Hawkins
and j. S. Massey OF Equality.
Fourth distrlc:-D. NJ. X. Taylor and
d. c. Williams.
Fifth district. D. Macready of Potts
boro, L. S. Adair Of AIyord and D. j.
Eddleman of Denton.
Sixth district-P. S. Browder of Dial
las and r. A. Binford Of Terrell
Seventh dlstrict-L. L. Sloss of Pear
sail and r. P. Briscoe of Foster.
Eighth district-J. a. Green of Colum-
l bus, j d. Nicely Of MOulton, and j. M.
| Rennick of Lexington.
q Ninth district. NJ. Smith of Bloom
. Ing Grove and W. p. Hancock Of
= SGlado,
Tenth district-F. Hopheinz of Gsuda-
, Iupe, Kendall county; J. G. Baldwin 0.
. BIanC0, G. W Logan OF Clrcleville, S. +
Holland Of Barnet, snd ". B. LeVere:i
o Of San Saba.
= Eleventh distrct-Egan Jnes CT Dub
= lin, j. S'odda~d Ct blackstone. Nat S Wei
. lace ana y, H. c. Elliot. Of Br0rnwU1t,
and j. =. Webb CT Abilene.
: TLis supplies thiEty-t1ree delegates
: from TIE state out OF l33 counties repre-.
= scented. Respectfully submitted,
: D. NJ. RUMPH, Chairman.
- A lsrGe number CT the delegates left TO-
. night for Atlanta, Ga, to attend the
Farmers Congress Of the cotton states
:, which meets there next week.
= Early this morning DR.. c.. W. Macune
:, financial agent for the State Farmers AL
- lance, notified the citizsns' committee d
= fifteen that he would meet them at II
- O'Clock 81 the McClelland MOTEL parlors
{. with the twenty five stockholders of the
- Farmers Alliance Of Texas. At the hcul
: named g number of the citizens commit
~ tee were present Dallas and For
~ Worth were also represented. The repre-
sentatives of the three cities were asked
% 10 present their claims for the exchange
% which was done. Speeches were made
c and the natural advantages of each cit
were set forth, every one trying to out d.
:, the other The meeting held over unit
II after the noon hour when the sealeC
,s bids were made put by the representa-
70 tives Of Fort Worth, Dallas and Waco
- End handed to the twenty-five stockhol
~ ders Of the exchange. These gentlemen
e held secret session ST . O'Clock thi
a afternoon and decided upon the selection
4 of a city where to locate the exchange
20 DR.. Mscune told THE GAZETTE reporte
~ this afternoon that the choice of the CON
mittee would not be made known unit
some time next week.
The Farmers Alliance Exchange O
Texas will be a chartered corporation
d with g capital stock Of S5O0,OOO divide
sc into twenty-five shares Of s25, 900 each
d. To raise this amount of money tw
J. assessments will be levied upon al tn
re- members Of the Alliance II Texas. On
J. assessment OF 81 will be collecte
i October Is, and another for the sam
!" amount December l. The Of lee
+ OF the exchange is to purchase any con
s, commodity needed by the order from tn
re factories, and sell the same 81 actusl cos
~ csrrlsge, etc, added; sell produce, etc
to tie best advantage; will be under tn
supervision Of twenty-fv the stockholder
or directors = two are elected bySth
order from esch congressional distAe
- 3nd three from the state Ct large.
Of SRNATPH EIDDLRERGER Il JAZZ
IT : Lifted states States Senator Arrested Il